Tag Archives: Internet

Internet dieting has become extremely popular in recent years, according to this article from AP. We have seen some of the results here: this post on the South Beach Diet has been gathering comments steadily for nine months, and CW Fisher has just started a series on what he calls …

If you think about it for a moment, the fact that 75% of Americans have access to the Internet from their homes after just ten years is remarkable: In a February telephone survey, an estimated 204.3 million people, or 74.9 percent of the population above the age of two and …

Interesting essay by Clive Thompson in NY Times Magazine arguing that the Internet generally makes people more honest: a Cornell professor recently claimed to have established the truth of a curious proposition: We fib less frequently when we’re online than when we’re talking in person. Jeffrey Hancock asked 30 of …

As users quickly become aware, the worst part of using the major file sharing services is the crap they clog up your computer with: pop up ads, spyware, even viruses. If you are using Kazaa, this program will help – Kazaa Cleaner: Kazaa Cleaner is a free and tiny Adware …

A video clip wherein celebrities great and small rather gleefully pronounce their favorite swear words. The FCC will pop something upon inspection of this one. My favorite is the entended hyphenation at the end. UPDATE Some background on the video: FilmFour is to screen a controversial ad that features the …

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland is airing a closed-circuit feed from the Induction Ceremony from the Waldorf Astoria in NYC tonight. My great pal Johanna Hoadley is webcasting the event live from the Rock Hall: 8:31 p.m. Ahmet Ertegun, founder and chairman of the …

Toronto Star Internet columnist Peter Howell is coming a bit late to the blog game, but late is way better than never: I was skeptical about Weblogs – “blogs” for short – when I first heard about them, and why I’ve never really followed them that closely. Blogs looked like …

An awful lot of people, especially music fans over, say, 30, aren’t particularly eager to give up CDs, but they also like some of the advantages of the Internet digital jukebox, especially purchase-by-the-song (these used to be called “singles”). On Tuesday Starbucks will announce a new service where customers can …

With MP3.com gone and uncertainty about what (if anything) is going to replace it as the central clearinghouse for unsigned and indie music, a number of contenders for the throne have emerged. Here is another one – Mperia: So what is Mperia? The long version: Mperia is designed to let …

Attention: all you short filmmakers. No, not you Marty, you may be short but your films are long. I’m talking about films of 8 minutes or less. This is for you: The Imagine Cup is a worldwide tournament challenging the globe’s best and brightest students to use technology to enhance …